Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Point of Departure -- Chapter 3. Actor Specificities and the Types of Economic Organization -- Chapter 4. Transcending Borders and Institutional Dynamics -- Chapter 5. Conflating Capitalisms: Western MNCs in Latin America -- Chapter 6. The Action Situation...

Preface: Materiality, Institutions & Organizing -- Introduction: Institution and Materiality -- Institutionalization as bricolage: A material perspective -- Footsteps in the sand: consequences of conformity in complex institutional environment -- The problem of ontological fluctuations in...

Institutions are man-made entities and their workings, as well as the changes they may undergo, is fundamentally imbued in language and communication. In analysing the role of socio-cultural values, this book argues that communication and language is inseparable from both the economy and a...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The syncretism (the first wave): The first family businesses in the region -- Chapter 3. First migration flows (the second wave): A new culture of family businesses -- Chapter 4. Mapping the formation of the family group (the third wave): From state[1]owned...

1. Introduction - Thi Anh-Dao Tran -- Part I. Setting the Scene Over 30 Years: A “lessons learned” Inspection -- 2 The Transformations of Contemporary Capitalisms: Seven Lessons - Robert Boyer -- 3. The Hybrid Nature of the Vietnamese Market Economy: Personal Relationships and Debt in the...

This book asks fundamental questions about the extent to which India is participating in the global shift towards knowledge-based forms of competitiveness. It charts Indian performance and progress using a unique framework benchmarked against fourteen other countries. In the course of the...

Chapter 1: Introduction; Gabriele Capelli, David Mitch -- Part I: Global religious activity and schooling.-Chapter 2: Religion, colonialism and missions in Africa; Felix Meier zu Selhausen -- Chapter 3: The long legacy of missions in Latin America; Felipe Valencia -- Part II: Colonial legacies,...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. MENA and World Oil Markets -- Chapter 3. Resource Curse and Institutions -- Chapter 4. Democracy in MENA -- Chapter 5. MENA and Alternative Sources of Energy -- Chapter 6. Reducing the Demand for Oil -- Chapter 7. The Population Threat -- Chapter 8. Why the...

1. On Familism -- 2. Vision and Calculation -- 3. When Public Goods Become Private Goods -- 4. On the Homogeny, Separation, and Substitution of Rent and Tax -- 5. The Economic Nature of the Permanent Tenancy -- 6. Transactions and Cities -- 7. How Should Institutions Change? -- 8. Contracts...

1. World-systems analysis and the systemic cycle -- 2. Institutions and institutional change -- 3. Framework oriented interpretations of the systemic cycle and institutional theory -- 4. A Systemic Cycle Oriented Framework of Institutional Change -- 5. Labor Market in United States of America --...